CHAPTER 18:

THE WHOLE30:

PROCESS OF

ELIMINATION

“I have been a lifelong acute asthmatic.
Hundreds of ER visits, hospitalizations, and
so forth. It was around week two of my
Whole30 when my miracle happened. I went
out for a warm-up run—something I dread
every day, and something I have never been
able to do. But it was during this run where
there was suddenly a feeling like I had the
legs (and lungs) of a gazelle. I had never felt
this in thirty-three years. So much so that I
voluntarily went on another run ... and
another. Since the Whole30, I have been
unmedicated for the first time in my life. I